Twas Brillig

So I thought I’d better make a list…

1.  I can’t tell you how excited I am about SMID’s “Day to Read” tomorrow.  I have my books all lined up (thanks to Kate, who brought me a pile of books on her birthday.  That’s right, she brought ME books on HER birthday!) and I’m excited to report to you on Friday how it goes.   If you haven’t read SMID’s post about this yet, go do so right this instant.  She’s got some amazing, chilling quotes in there, along with her own brilliant style of writing, and it’s absolutely worth the effort of clicking on over there.  Go.

2.  I’ve deleted the post about my mom (though I left it up at Cre8buzz, because I liked HOW I wrote it, I just didn’t like what it said…).  It gave many of you the wrong impression of both her and me.   It was an attempt at creatively explaining a complicated relationship and some of the pain that I’ve felt, even though, really, she’s an amazing woman and has always been one of my greatest friends.  Maternal nurturing was never really her strong suit, and that’s okay.  It really is.  She more than compensates in so many other ways.  My post was more about my frustration that right now, with some of the things going on in my life, I sorta yearn for a mommy, as opposed to a brilliant, strong, devoted, amazing friend.  But many would kill for the mother I have, and I’m going to be grateful for her rather than bagging on her publicly.  Still, as I said, I enjoyed the way I wrote the post and I’m therefore not killing it off completely.  It now lives at the ‘buzz.

3.  Speaking of the ‘Buzz, y’all know that I still have invites if you’re interested in being one of the beta testers, right?  It’s a cool place, yo.  Leave me a comment or launch an email at me and I’ll make sure you get an invite.  They’re now allowing you to peruse the site without joining (though you can’t rate or comment on anything if you’re not a member) so go check it out.  You’ll notice that I’ve fallen from grace over there (demoted from #1 overall to #5, and demoted from #1 woman to #2) and it looks like I could SERIOUSLY use a few more friends there!  (That’s not really my motivation in offering up invites, I promise…)

4.  In the vein of self-pimping, I thought I would mention that it has been brought to my attention that I was nominated for the 2008 Bloggies for “Best Writing of a Blog” and “Best New Blog” (a blog created sometime during 2007) and I’m astonished and delighted by this news… and would love it if any of you wanted to… um… nominate me too.  I think I’d fly over the moon if I were to make it to the finals.  You only have until this Friday to submit your nominations. (You can read all the rules and details about nominating and who moves on to the finals, etc, here.) And now I’m feeling very sheepish at having brought this up at all, so I’m running off to the next thought now…

5.   Princess Fluffy was home from school today because we were snowed in.  (I had to call  in and excuse her— her school is located in a part of the valley that didn’t get nearly as much snow as we on the “benches” did so everyone else seemed to have made it just fine, which means that Fluffy had to take an absent, and I hate wasting an “absent” when my kid is perfectly healthy and eager to go to school.  Holy tangent, Batman.)  But Fluffy was determined to make the very most of our snow day.  She headed to the basement and turned off all the lights, and turned on my awesome new disco ball and announced that it was time for a dance party.  So Fuzzles and Fluffy and I all gathered in the basement where I turned on “disco-on-demand” (yes, my cable company offers disco-on-demand, for which I think I may write them a cheesy love letter) and we had an awesomely hilarious time, all made possible by my dearest darlingest Jenn in Holland, whose discoball-lamp-giving could not have encountered a more grateful recipient.

6.  The Colbert Report begins in just a few minutes—with a NEW episode.  The joy that this brings me gives me tingles from the tippy top of my head down to the tippy tips of my toes.  Hubby is already snuggled down in front of the TV waiting for me to sign off the computer and join him.  This is glorious, precious time, friends.

7.  I filed for a new passport today…  I don’t want to jinx it by telling you any details, but it looks as though a grand adventure is in my near-ish future… and I’m kinda giddy.  You know how I dig adventures abroad.

Ending this now, and loving you all.  May you have a WONDERFUL “Day To Read” tomorrow!  I know I will!